Tobias Verbeke
2013-Apr-29 12:53 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] naming r-base files Ubuntu precise builds
L.S. The Ubuntu precise builds of R 2.15.3 at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/precise/ have names for the r-base package that seem erroneous r-base_2.15.3-1precise0precise1.diff.gz 02-Mar-2013 14:09 79K r-base_2.15.3-1precise0precise1.dsc 02-Mar-2013 14:09 2.4K r-base_2.15.3-1precise0precise1_all.deb 02-Mar-2013 17:49 37K Should this be r-base_2.15.3-1precise1.diff.gz r-base_2.15.3-1precise1.dsc r-base_2.15.3-1precise1_all.deb and, if yes, can this be fixed? Many thanks in advance! Best wishes, Tobias
Michael Rutter
2013-Apr-29 16:27 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] naming r-base files Ubuntu precise builds
On 04/29/2013 08:53 AM, Tobias Verbeke wrote:> L.S. > > The Ubuntu precise builds of R 2.15.3 at > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/precise/ > > have names for the r-base package that seem erroneous > > r-base_2.15.3-1precise0precise1.diff.gz 02-Mar-2013 14:09 79K > r-base_2.15.3-1precise0precise1.dsc 02-Mar-2013 14:09 2.4K > r-base_2.15.3-1precise0precise1_all.deb 02-Mar-2013 17:49 37K > > Should this be > > r-base_2.15.3-1precise1.diff.gz > r-base_2.15.3-1precise1.dsc > r-base_2.15.3-1precise1_all.deb > > and, if yes, can this be fixed? > > Many thanks in advance! > > Best wishes, > TobiasTobias, That "feature" of the naming convention is a function of the process used to build the deb packages for Ubuntu. I use a Launchpad PPA to build the binaries, then mirror them to CRAN. Using Launchpad allows for the packages to be built on multiple architectures (386 and amd64 and others in the future) without me having to maintain all those build machines. The strange naming is one potential downside. Every once in a while I need to upload a release of R twice to the PPA in order to fix a bug. Sometimes, this will result in names like you see above. Once the package is built, I cannot fix the names. However, it should not be causing any problems as apt/synaptic should install that as the latest version of R. In my experience, it is only cosmetic and does not effect the upgrade process. Hope this helps, Michael -- Dr. Michael A. Rutter School of Science Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter